nevar00 wrote...
The endings are all still kind of bad but it's certainly an improvement and at least the main issues (plot holes, out of character moments, rushed, three different-colored endings, etc) have been, for the most part, fixed.
The relays aren't completely destroyed, your squad isn't stuck on Gilligan's Planet, and you finally can get information and question the kid about everything. Telling the kid to **** right off was the most satisfying ending, even if everyone died anyway. Control was the only other one I chose as it was the first I had decided with, and it's probably still the "best" out of those three, which isn't saying too much.
Still the biggest issues with the ending are:
- your decisions not mattering in the end (Rachni and Collector Base in the rest of the game especially)
- the final level was mediocre, especially after the Suicide Mission in the second game and it should've played out similar to that with you seeing the entire army you amassed and commanding them suicide mission style
- objectively, it's still poorly written. A main antagonist switch within the last 5 minutes is still horrific.
However I wasn't really expecting any of that to be addressed so at least I didn't get my hopes up. I'd say it's at least passable now and I can play the game again. Still disappointed it ended like this, but it's a massive improvement from the previous endings.
Agreed, the EC is a lot better than the original ending and way better than I expected, I maybe even could live with the EC as ending if they shipped it like that right away but now that they changed it (and that´s what they did no matter how you put it, things actually changed) it´s sad they decided to such a weak ending.
Even so they said this is the final ending and there will be no more changes to it, I still have a little bit of hope left that there actually will come more and maybe even something that will affect the ending after reading about the Leviathan of Dis lines some people found in the DLC and that is actually the only DLC that would matter for me, DLC you can buy to change the ending.